This is my building.

The gate is open today, but should be locked starting Wednesday night. Some Nuclear Summit is being held across the street in the convention center, and multiple foreign delegations and/or heads of state will be in attendance for a couple of days.

I should have some interesting security pics in a couple days.

Last time we had one of these, a woman on a bicycle was run over by an army truck and killed a block from here. I'll need to be alert.

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Yah, don't get killed

That would be bad.

It's hard to get over that kinda thing.

Watch out for female suicide bombers on bicycles.

Don't over look the fat bottomed girls on bicycles either.

They make the rockin' world go 'round.

It's been a couple weeks since this area was locked down for security. All the fences are gone, and cops are back to regular numbers. The one thing that remains is the security seals on the manholes.

I've been walking by these for weeks, and decided it was worth further investigation. First of all, there are hundreds of these things (I didn't count them) in a multiple block area around the convention center that hosted international delegations for the nuclear summit.

At a regular walking height, you hardly notice them. If you bend over to look, they look like this:
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When you get closer for a nice shot, they take on some texture:
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If you try to pry one up, you notice immediately that instead of being like a paper or tape label, they are a stretchy rubber. You curl your fingers underneath and keep pulling until the stretching gives way to tearing.
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And they have a little lingering sticky glue on the torn edges, but are otherwise just some flappy rubber sheets with perforations.
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You start to see a story in some of them.
This manhole shifted since the summit.
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Storm drains, even right next to the summit have no seals at all. That because the gutter part can't be closed off, so why bother with the rest. Plus, if you are small enough, you can crawl in through the storm drains from another neighborhood. Train a racoon and strap a bomb to it.
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This manhole was opened and then resealed.
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And this guy went crazy even taping a water shutoff cover. This wasn't done consistently.
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Did you know they can get fingerprints from a photograph?

♫ Oh the NSA is coming to your house
♪ Anytime now, night or day
♫ Yes, the NSA is coming to your house
♪ So it may be time to pray

:lol:

And maybe the craziest thing I saw was sealing off light poles to the ground. And in this particular case, doing it while leaving the access hatch to the wiring un-sealed.
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Just think how much planning and paperwork, recording all those seal numbers which the government will probably keep forever, and not in a jar on Funk & Wagnall's porch, but a top secret high security(expensive) location. I wonder if the seals have RFIDs in them.

No RFIDs. Too stretchy. RFIDs would be pulled apart.

Alert:

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WTF?

Oh yeah. Awesome Con this weekend.

I turn the corner, and yup.
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I was too slop to get Kylo Ren